As we forgive those who do wrong is my parsing of the traditional words of the Lord's Prayer

As we forgive those who do wrong is my parsing of the traditional words of the Lord's PrayerAs we forgive our debtors As we forgive those who trespass against us Both of these constructions are less telling these days As we forgive those who do wrong covers the waterfront of things we need to forgive on a daily basis 
We are forgiving a whole lot of people including people we have already forgiven when our forgiveness has been less than effective We forgive those we know have harmed us in word and deed And we forgive those whose actions are harming us even though they may not know it and are far away We forgive everyone daily 
But the most the most important word in this beyond forgive is common to all versions - as This points to the reciprocal contractual covanental nature of this massive transaction We are forgiven by Abba AS we forgive This is the only condition in the prayer but it is the key to everything 
Go to South Africa where they have made forgiveness a national priority It is not perfect but imagine this happening in America Impossible in our poison climate 
To be forgiven is to stand free To obtain this freedom we must daily forgive everyone It does not mean we do not battle It means we battle for the values not for the pleasure of destroying folk And if we are destroying folk we need to look to our values 
The key ones are tolerance democracy helpfulness and non-idolatry

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